The Jewish museum and National Monument.

The museum

This museum shows the whole history of the Jews in Berlin (Germany), that is showing what the Jews have gone through in Berlin.

­­­ The Jewish Museum, Germany. The building covers 2 German Jewish history and its is a combination of old and new, it consist 2 building. The new part of building is designed by architect Daniel Libeskind

Libeskind’s academic and intellectual practice culminates in this much-talked-about and unusual building. The design is based on a rather involved process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. These lines form a basic outline and structure for the building. Libeskind also has used the concepts of absence, emptiness, and the invisible—expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city—to design the building. This concept takes form in a kinked and angled sequence through the building, orchestrated to allow the visitor to see (but not to enter) certain empty rooms, which Libeskind terms ‘voided voids.’ The ideas which generate the plan of the building repeat themselves on the surface of the building, where voids, windows, and perforations form a sort of cosmological composition on an otherwise undifferentiated, zig-zagging zinc surface.

In my way of thinking I think the Jewish museum is commemorating the dead. Through the 3 axes which indicates the 3 realities of Jewish life in Germany

Jewish had gone through a very hard life in Germany .first axis follows from the old baroque building to the new building of Jewish museum this had represented the Jews the continuation of the Jews living in Germany

The second axis which is out to the garden of the exile and emigration outdoor. the garden with slanted pillars represents the instability of the immigration time. And the plant at the top represents hope. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holocaust

Third axis shows the number of people who was dead during the holocaust time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holocaust

Its quite incredible to have those ideas blended in the design of the building

National Museum was built after independence in 1959 and was officiated by our Third Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Putra Al-Haj Ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail on 31st August 1963.

I think it's the appropriate one if we wanted to make a comparison between two museums and architecture. Museum Negara is a palatial structure built in the style of Rumah Gadang or Minangkabau .To symbolize the nation’s culture, the architect, decided to build National museum in a traditional Malay style. Its facade comprises elements of traditional Malay and modern features.. And we're much displaying story and pictures, weapons for memorizing the heroes.

In my way of thinking’s think the best way of remembering them for this kind of a history is by displaying their left behind items like as shown now. And also they can show it by architecture. As Libeskind has said, “It is the responsibility of architecture and culture to address events and history” It is best to commemorate with architecture as “A building and a city are always present across time and across history. The act of building transforms the culture of a city.”